>Treat this as gospel:
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>Kids don't become good writers till they become good readers.
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>Literature-based Language Arts classes contain practical, in-your-face
>models of grammar and content.
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Hmmm. I believe a case could be made in reverse as well. If we accept the
premise that reading is a function of language interpretation and that writing
is a funtion of language production, then is it illogical to assume that
students can interpret that which they cannot produce? Or, put another way,
does interpretation depends on production? If so, then it only makes sense that
one interprets only as well as one produces. Therefore (here it comes),
effective production of language should be taught along with effective
interpretation, not following it.